S/PDIF A/52 stopped working after upgrade to 0.8.4

[chris_hubball]

I've just upgraded to 0.8.4 from 0.8.2 and I've found that A52 via S/PDIF has stopped working. When I say stopped working, I get no sound and my amp doesn't say "Dolby Digital" so I guess there's no signal over S/PDIF. On the command line, I get the following messages:

[00000318] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000
[00000326] alsa audio output error: internal: can't find audio-device (10)
[00000326] oss audio output error: cannot reset OSS audio device
[00000259] main playlist: stopping playback

I'm sure S/PDIF is working because I have MythMusic working fine. Also, while the video is playing, if I change the Audio Device from A52 to Stereo, the stereo signal is sent over S/PDIF and plays back perfectly.

Has anybody else seen this problem? I noticed in the changelist that multi-channel audio over S/PDIF had been "fixed". Could this be related?

I'm running Debian unstable, Xorg, ALSA, VIA EPIA M1000.

Chris.

[zorglub]

Hello,

We probably have fixed the problem in a SVN branch at svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/branches/0.8.4a

If you can, could you please try to build and test this ?

We will probably be releaseing this bugfix version in a few days and it should be in unstable very soon after

[chris_hubball]

Thanks for the reply.

I use the released packages and haven't gone down the route of building it myself, so it's probably easiest if I just wait for 0.8.4a. I'll let you know if it fixes the problem.

Chris.

[xtophe]

You can also try a package from http://nightlies.videolan.org if you're running i386 or amd 64. ( Well once we fixed the build)

[chris_hubball]

I've tried the nightly build labelled the 30th and it's still broken. Not sure how I tell if it's got the fix in or not?!

EDIT: This is wrong - please ignore! I actually downloaded the Debian nightly which hasn't been rebuilt since the 27th.

[ceno]

We probably have fixed the problem in a SVN branch at svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/branches/0.8.4a

If you can, could you please try to build and test this ?

We will probably be releaseing this bugfix version in a few days and it should be in unstable very soon after

I bumped into the same problem (SPDIF doesn't work anymore)
0.8.4 didn't work
0.8.4a does work again.
setup: debian/unstable ice1724 (Terratec Aureon 7.1-Space)

[tsiMental]

I got the same problem.

I have a DFI Lanparty nForce4 SLI motherboard. Running VLC in Windows.

SPDIF is not working in 0.8.4. Nor is it working in the 0.8.5-svn-20051207 nightly build.

I just reverted to VLC 0.8.2, where SPDIF accually works flawlessly.

[tsiMental]

This bug appears alot like the way really old versions of AC3Filter used to work. Choppy (and maybe really slow) playback.

[mokdevel]

I noticed this bug yesterday too. I'm using a Terratec DMX 1024 and it's SPDIF. My receiver informs me that the there is a AC3 stream entering, but I can not hear any sound. Zoomplayer & AC3filter works flawlessly.

I need to try the 0.8.2 to see if it helps.

[mokdevel]

I need to try the 0.8.2 to see if it helps.

Tested with 0.8.2 (win) and spdif out works with it. 0.8.4 seems to be broken on ac3 output.

[chris_hubball]

My original problem is now fixed with 0.8.4a.

Thank you.

[mokdevel]

My original problem is now fixed with 0.8.4a.

The new a-version (windows) did not solve my case of silent AC3 stream over S/PDIF. 0.8.2 works well as I stated earlier. In my case my receiver informs that a 5.1 stream is coming in and I hear the correct relay snap on inside it. For some reason there is only silence...

Stereo sound over S/PDIF works...

Hmm... I probably should go to the windows side with a new thread.

[gabelhonz]

Hi,

i have the same problem on linux (gentoo) with version 0.85.

Debug: audio output is too slow

regards

[maurs]

Same problems here. SPDIF doesn't work anymore. I just return back to 0.8.4a-r1.

System is: Gentoo 2006.0
Vlc version: 0.8.5-r3